Hi everybody!

During the last weeks I started Black & White photography with my
medium format cameras! Are there some filters any of you would
recommend? I thought about a medium or strong yellow filter for my
TL120! Any ideas what would be best? What are your experiences? Do you
have any special informations or tricks to produce wonderfull pictures
in B&W? I´m highly interested in your experiences!!!

Kind regards from Germany to all the MF enthusiasts out there!!!

Chris

Hi Chris,

Here's a relevant post I made back in February:

Absolutely! When I want to darken blue skies and can suffer the filter
factor, I use yellow-orange filters. Given that I had to buy two of them
for stereo (in 72mm size to satisfy all my lenses), and that I like to buy
only multi-coated filters from the likes of B+W or Heliopan, that's the
only filter I chose to carry for use with black and white films. (I don't
have red, orange, or yellow - I split the difference and went with
yellow-orange). This requires a working ISO of only 40 when it's ISO 100
without the filter. The manufacturer's specs say that it has a filter
factor of 4 (which translates to two stops), but my light meter says it's
only about 1 and 2/3 stops - for both of my filters, so I shoot them at ISO
40, not 25.

A red filter can cost you 3 stops and yellow only 1 stop, if you find that
more appealing - but the affect isn't very dramatic with a yellow
filter. You can also lighten foliage with a green filter or lighten
foliage while also darkening blue skies with a yellow-green filter, but
I've never experimented with any of those.

Here's the yellow-orange filter I use, but in the smaller 46mm size that
you'd want for a TL-120:

B+W 46 mm 040 Yellow-Orange (16) Multi-Coated (MC) Glass Filter

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/sitem/sku=7465&is=REG

MFR#: 66040388 B&H#: BW040MC46

Multi-coating is critical in my opinion.

Mike Davis

Thank you Mike! I think I`ll test your favorite filter! Kind regards, Chris
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--- In MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com, "Michael K. Davis"
wrote:

>
> > You can also lighten foliage with a green filter or lighten
> >foliage while also darkening blue skies with a yellow-green
> >filter, but I've never experimented with any of those.

The main advantage I've found of coated filters is that you don't get
refections between the filter and the front element of the camera.
This is especially true of cameras with uncoated lenses. I find that
an orange filter can be magic during the fall. It lightens the fall
leaves and darkens the sky. You can achieve an almost infrared like
image - especially if you're using a red-sensitive film.
Steve